When I got into the Nashville scene, with the Ross Coppermans and Zach Kales and Jon Nites and Nicolle Galyons, all these… — Gabby Barrett Copy Share Image
I was never as focused in math, science, computer science, etcetera, as the people who were best at it. I wanted to… — Kevin Systrom Copy Share Image
Whenever you study composition you inevitably encounter Bach right off the bat. You can't get across the room without running into him… — Howard Roberts Copy Share Image
When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger.… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
In the ballet studio, it was such an organized and disciplined environment, like I'd never had in my life. Seeing myself in… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
I think the thing that we agreed to so many years ago, actually, was that the music didn't have to support the… — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
The music world has taken a huge dump, so maybe there's a connection. So if Apple decided to do this, maybe they… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
“I was surrounded by silence and Tristan was music. So much music. All the time. Streaming in my eardrums 24-7. Serenading me… — Jessica Brody Copy Share Image
There's not a lot of precedent for weird, bald musicians in the Lower East Side making records in their bedrooms and going… — Moby Copy Share Image
I always felt kind of like an outsider...in pop music, and just from high school and I remember Lady Starlight looked over… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Abjure all accretions and turn off the lights. Put on some music - Leonard Cohen, say, perhaps his 'Various Positions' - and… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
No matter where I'm at in life, whether I'm in the music industry, rich, poor, everybody need love in their life. Gangsta… — A Boogie wit da Hoodie Copy Share Image
I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing. I feel the actors are being put through a… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
Ego cannot bring anything extraordinary into the world; the extraordinary comes only through egolessness. And so is the case with the musician… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Country music has changed tremendously, so what now is considered country was not considered country at that time. We were doing stuff… — Charlie Daniels Copy Share Image
I started playing instruments before I started making beats, and I was never the best guitarist or the best pianist or the… — Russ Copy Share Image
I think it's that thing of growing up all the time watching American movies and listening to American music. It hits you… — Ben Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
I was the first Indian music composer to win the China Gold Award for 'Jimmy Jimmy' from 'Disco Dancer.' Adam Sandler repeated… — Bappi Lahiri Copy Share Image
I don't only like rock music. There are other forms of music that I find interesting. I would want to do everything,… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
Give me the artist who breathes it like a native, and goes about his work in it as quietly as a common… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Musicians like James Blake were a big influence on me. How he uses his vocals is amazing. And then Yeasayer and Animal… — Lorde Copy Share Image
Music springs from and is replenished by a hidden source which lies outside the world or reality. Music ever spoke to me… — Bruno Walter Copy Share Image
About 50 percent of the songs on the radio are like, 'Live like tomorrow doesn't exist. Like it's my birthday. Like it's… — Sia Copy Share Image
I've gotten a little superstitious about listening to music when I write. Once a story is going somewhere, I keep listening to… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
I left Starbucks in 2015. When I was younger, I remember looking at Justin Bieber and wishing I had all these fans,… — Jorja Smith Copy Share Image
Music is the exact opposite of anxiety. It's there to relieve anxiety, to calm you down. And to just get the noise… — Neal Barnard Copy Share Image
I used to play a few instruments including guitar and snare drums, but I think a musical background is an important part… — Nicky Romero Copy Share Image
“I hide myself to avoid others; but the lust for life reasserts itself, through the boredom or in the inflection of distress.… — Anne de Gandt Copy Share Image
“Third, hear our loss of focus on the gospel in our songs. This is no comment on musical styles and tastes, but… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
I have had very little interest in being an icon or visual representation for my music. I like playing music with my… — Jorge Elbrecht Copy Share Image
There's a million things that come through when you put songs together and it's kind of difficult to pinpoint exactly what triggers… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk… — Ikue Mori Copy Share Image
“Why is there so much meaningless, waste of time music out there these days? I'm no snob. I know I'm right about… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Where I'm from, there ain't a lot of other options, you know what I'm saying? Entertainment or football or crime. I don't… — Dizzee Rascal Copy Share Image
“Music, this complex and mysterious act, precise as algebra and vague as a dream, this art made out of mathematics and air,… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
Now, by and large, people are recording material to put on YouTube. I have a theory that YouTube is, in the end,… — Travis Morrison Copy Share Image
There's always that possibility. But, it would take a hell of a lot of work. Because unlike a movie where you just… — Eric Fellner Copy Share Image
“(But) I learned in time that this benignity, this cordiality, this music, belonged in no shape to me: it was a part… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
New York has changed a whole lot. For worse I think because back when I was growing up in New York we… — Phife Dawg Copy Share Image
